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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Site of ROMAN ROAD [Cramond House] | Roman Road (Continued) | 001 | [continued from page 62) who died at an advanced age and who was particularly conversant in those matters.he also derived much information from John Paton who was formerly schoolmaster, for a great number of years, his father and grandfather having partook of the same occupation in Cramond, and who lived to a great age, may also here remark that another of those important Roads look in the direction of Leith were evident vestiges have been found from thence to Aberlady Bay in Communication with the Roman fleet that lay there. the slightest trace of which cannot be discovered. save that of the above. Now I will quote what "Wood says of those Roads," The great Roman Military way, the subject of the first Iter of Antoninus, from Praetorium in Lincolnshire, to Bremenium in Northumberland, proceeded from the last mentioned station, by Eildon and Soutra, to Bowbridge, near the East end of the Pentland Hills. At this place evident vestiges of the Causeway were visible a few years ago; and the present Turnpike Road from Linton to Edinburgh is cut for near a mile in the very line of its direction. From hence the Military Way was continued by Ravelston to Cramond, where several remains thereof have been found, at different times particularly in 1774 when improvements where making adjacent to Cramond House, this Road as is supposed crossed the Almond and passing over Mons Hill went by way of Queensferry and Abercorn to Caeridden. Situated at the eastern extremity of the wall of Antoninus. It is here thereof that no vestigia, can be traced between Cramond and Caeridden; but as General Roy well observed there is every reason to believe that the communication must have been, continued from this important Naval Station along the Forth to the end of the wall. Continued [on page 64] |
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Parish - Cramond
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